Curtin raiser

Nicholas Wapshott’s “Out of the mouths of Keynseyians" (Review, January 4) contains a number of egregious factual errors. They were in Wapshott’s book and have been repeated.
John Curtin
could not have “introduced a full employment act in 1946" since he died in 1945. There was never a full employment act in Australia: the Curtin government in 1945 published a white paper on full employment. He did not attend Keynes’s memorial service in London in 1945 as Keynes died in 1946. Curtin did not visit the UK in 1945 but in 1944.